ID
0957
Nationality
French
Occupation
Teacher
Summary
Hearing. An early teacher of the deaf in France, who utililized residual hearing in his students as much as possible. "Demonstrated" two of his pupils to the French Academy of Science in 1757, showing that the boys could lipread and speak.
References
The Conquest of Deafness, p.94-95.
Dates
fl. 1757